Strange Farming Accidents

We happened to be looking something up the other day and something relating to “odd farming accidents” caught our eye.

Now at first glance, this didn’t seem to be likely to be amusing. Far too many people continue to be injured and killed on Australian farms for this to be a subject for giggles but in fact it turned out to be a series of photos of ‘situations’ rather than accidents. We have to admit that some of them made us smile and you couldn’t help wondering “just how on earth could that have happened?”

One of our favourites was actually from the UK. It consisted of several large tractors (none of them Kubota Tractors we hasten to add) which were bogged down in a rain-sodden field almost up to their cabs.

A lot of guys were standing around scratching their heads and there was a large long-jib crane parked on the nearby road, reaching over trying to pull the tractors out. The legend explained that the ‘jam’ had come about after a first tractor had got bogged down and others went to its aid.

For more details, please visit - http://www.whitestractors.com.au/blog/320-strange-farming-accidents.html 

Kubota Spotlight – Kubota L4600

Redesigned and re-engineered from the bottom up, the L4600 offers a new curved hood with matching fenders, multiple headlamps, an easy-to-read dash panel, a more powerful E-TVCS diesel engine and a mechanical shuttle transmission, for a higher level of tractor performance and confidence.

Redesigned and re-engineered from the bottom up, the L4600 offers a new curved hood with matching fenders, multiple headlamps, an easy-to-read dash panel, a more powerful E-TVCS diesel engine and a mechanical shuttle transmission, for a higher level of tractor performance and confidence.

Add Kubota’s new powerful front loader and backhoe, and the L4600 gives you more capability to handle tough jobs with ease.

We have received this season’s stock and this is currently our biggest selling lifestyle tractor…come and find out more!

For more details, please visit - http://www.whitestractors.com.au/spotlight/315-kubota-spotlight-kubota-l4600.html

Thought of the Month - Trouble Tree

She’d hired a plumber to help her restore an old farmhouse and he had just finished a rough first day on the job. A flat tire had made him lose an hour of work, his electric drill quit and his ancient one ton truck refused to start.

While she drove him home, he sat in stony silence. On arriving, he invited her in to meet his family. As they walked toward the front door, he paused briefly at a small tree, touching the tips of the branches with both hands.

When opening the door, he underwent an amazing transformation. His tanned face was wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss.

Afterward, he walked back to the car. They passed the tree and her curiosity got the better of her.

For more details, please visit - http://www.whitestractors.com.au/blog/311-thought-of-the-month-trouble-tree.html

We’re not just about Big Tractors!

Recently we heard someone suggest, quite naturally in passing, that White’s Tractors only dealt in big heavy-duty agricultural machinery.

Well, in a sense that statement’s a compliment, as it shows our expertise in that area is now widely recognised. However, it’s also not entirely correct.

As large numbers of our regular customers know, while we do deal in prestige larger equipment like the incomparable Kubota M7 Tractor, we also provide a lot of domestic gardening equipment too. In fact, we’re experts in things such as domestic lawnmowers and mowing techniques etc.

We’d like to be clear on this one. We take ALL of our customers equally seriously. It doesn’t matter whether you’re considering buying a new mower for your front lawn or a Kubota Tractor for your farm, what you’ll see from us in unrivalled expertise and a firm focus on customer service.

What’s more, please don’t overlook our spares and parts services. We’ve now got a large inventory on-site and even if we don’t have exactly what you’re searching for, there’s a pretty good chance we’ll be able to get it for you.

For more details, please visit - http://www.whitestractors.com.au/blog/265-we-re-not-just-about-big-tractors.html

Cleaning Up your Machinery Parts

                      

Basic sensible maintenance means that sometimes you’re going to need to clean up one sort of ‘part’ or another.

Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about ultrasonic cleaning and related questions. Here’s our take on the subject….

1. Ultrasonic cleaning involves the suspension of the item to be cleaned, usually in a liquid. Transducers create ultrasound that in turn causes bubbles in the fluid to explode – removing dirt and grease from the item concerned.

2. Theoretically, plain water can be used but for heavier applications and to reduce the risk of subsequent corrosion, specialist cleaning and rinsing fluids may be required and they’re not cheap. If you do use plain water on ferrous items, remember that very thorough drying and the application of a protective layer will be required afterwards unless you’re into rust breeding.

For more details, please view - http://www.whitestractors.com.au/blog/254-cleaning-up-your-machinery-parts.html

Thought of the Month - Your Personal Bank Account

If you had a bank that credited $86,400 to your account each morning, carried over no balance from day to day, allowed you to keep no cash in your account at the end of 24 hours, and cancelled out whatever part of that amount you failed to use, what would you do?

Try to spend every cent, of course! Well, everyone does have such a bank, and its name is TIME. Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds.

The next morning at the same hour it rules as lost whatever of this you failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance and allows no overdrafts.

If you don't use the day's deposit, the loss is yours. There is no going back, no drawing against tomorrow.


How do you spend your daily surplus?

Best wishes for an Enormous Return on your investment today!

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Don’t Forget our Local Markets

Like all professionals, here at White’s Tractors we can sometimes get a bit obsessed with our business and work.

We’re not going to start apologising for that but just to show that we can sometimes get our heads out of Kubota tractors and their engines, we thought we’d dedicate a little space to talking about some of the great local traditions.
In and around Goulburn we have some fantastic fairs and markets. If you’re local you should already know about these but if you’re from a little bit further afield, here are just a few reminders of what’s on offer.

1. The Goulburn Old Brewery Market

2. Windellama Hall Markets

3. The Goulburn Homestead Markets

4. Lilac City Country Markets

5. Parkside Community Markets.


All this is just naming a few and if you’re wondering exactly what’s on offer, well, why not have a look on the Internet to find out about the various attractions?

Yes, were all busy and farming doesn’t exactly have the reputation for offering people working within it an awful lot of free time. Even so, we should probably all make a bit more of an effort to get out and about and support our local communities.

Some of these markets, if you haven’ ever visited them, are great fun and there’s also the chance to sample some unusual local produce as well as meet people and have a good chin wag with friends, neighbours or simply strangers.

We live and work in a truly attractive area that many people would give a lot to be able to live in too. Yet we maybe all have a tendency to overlook the attractions of the area and that’s why we’re making the plug here for some of the above markets and attractions.

So, given that the medical profession is telling us constantly we need to take more time off, why not make the effort to get out and about a bit more? You won’t regret it!

New Project Commissioned Focusing on Agricultural Innovation

A major new scheme has been launched with the intention of increasing, amongst other things, the amount of innovation used within the Australian farming industry.

Now the moment anyone combines the words “Government” and “Project” together in one sentence relating to agriculture, quite a few cynics will climb out of the woodwork and start predicting that the result will be nothing more than an expensive talking shop.

It’s true that all around the world, government projects aimed at radically improving agriculture have something of a very questionable track record. Quite a few of them have been largely irrelevant, apart from managing to dispose of large amounts of taxpayers’ money for no benefit, whilst others have been downright disastrous.

However, it may be important to recognise the benefits of sometimes taking a step back and having a bit of a ‘free think’ about the way we’re doing things. We can all slip easily into something of a rut in terms of going about our daily business because that’s “how we've always done things” or “it worked well for my parents so it’ll do the same for me” etc.

Tradition is fine but things have to change and you have more of a chance of controlling that change if you take time out from ‘business as usual’ to look for new ideas rather than if you are forced to adopt them simply because other people are doing so meaning you now have no choice but to do likewise.

Even here at White’s Tractors, we try to encourage people to think about ways in which we can run our business better, even including things such as how we sell and maintain our Kubota tractors.

In fact, we are always very keen to encourage our customers to point things out to us where there might be an opportunity for us to improve our services and to support them more effectively in doing so.

Sorry but we can’t set up a multi-million dollar project for you to join us to come up with new ideas! However, we’d always welcome a phone call or visit from you to point out where we could do things better.

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